Holy Cross Wilderness Area
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1) Packtrain
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Pack animals loaded with supplies or possibly ore on Missouri Pass. The rider may be Pete Mann.
2) Jack
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Part of the MacDonald Knight prospecting team.
Verso: " 'Jack' the male member of the pack string 1939"
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Verso: "Tom [Knight] and Sam Anderson, road to Holy Cross City 1940"
The men are resting their horses on the improved road.
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The Glengarry Mine site at 11,414 ft., Holy Cross Mining District. Middle Mountain has an elevation of 12,336 feet.
From the Eagle County Assessment Roll 1891-92 p.8: "Glengary #4354, 5.166 acres, value $60; Hidden Treasure #4353, 4.596 acres, value $50."
From the Eagle County Assessment Roll 1922. Transit Gold Mining Co. [Red Cliff School District 1 Holy Cross Mines] owned Glengary, Hidden Treasure and the Transit mines. Glengary was valued at...
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Tom Doran (on left) of Eagle, Colorado, and Chuck Shaw of Minturn, Colorado, with pack horses at Holy Cross City. Six buildings and the remains of other structures are visible in the background.
"By 1881, Holy Cross City was, itself, a reality. In a meadow, 11,407 feet above sea level, were "'two rows of houses facing each other with other buildings wherever a level spot could be found.' ...Between 1881 and 1883, Holy Cross City could boast...
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On the left is the cabin at Holy Cross City, used by Don Knight. Two burros are visible. On the right, Don Knight is preparing soil for panning.
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Sophie Hamrick Knight, on the divide between Cross Creek and West Cross Creek. She is posed with the dog, "Hound," and burros Lucky and The Kid. She and Tom Knight were prospecting at the time.
Verso: "Mom on the divide between Cross Creek and West Cross Creek with burros, Lucky and The Kid, and dog, The Houn'. 1938[?] Prospecting"
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Remains of the mill and adjacent structures at Holy Cross City, which is ten miles south of Minturn or eleven miles north of Tennessee Pass. By the time this photo was taken, Fleming Lumber Co. had removed the main steam engine and one of the boilers from the mill to use in a saw mill. [Courtesy of Ted Beck]
11) Holy Cross City
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A cabin standing at the abandoned town of Holy Cross City, Colorado, taken in August 2001.
12) Mica mining
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Theodore "Bud" Beck and Ron Dump carrying a wheelbarrow at Cleveland Lake (in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area). They were mining mica (Don Knights's venture).
The wheelbarrow "was obviously on its way to the Cleveland Lake Mica Mine & the ground was in no shape for it to be pushed."--Theodore "Bud" Beck
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Two hikers on Fancy Pass, no doubt one of the Beck boys and Don Knight, on a prospecting trip.
